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Its not as many as you think, I remember seeing some less then 2 million. And Directv is basicly giving it away to everyone this year. Which tells me the end is near.

But it was a nice Directv Tour (:)Solid Signal)

That place is amazing.

...you need to do some research on this. The money maker for ST is the bar/restaurant subs and pick up of new customers under a two year commitment. Giving it to new customers for "free" is a lucrative tool.

The NFL won't be asking themselves that...they are the ones who want it to be exclusive to one provider due to their incredibly important and lucrative agreements with network broadcast partners.

DirecTV does very well off of their deal for ST, especially with bars/restaurant subs and in retaining/gaining customers.

I just read an artical from April 2012 from Bloomberg, that Pegged Directv ST subscriber at 2.5 Million total that pay. They also claimed that Directv would also have to add 750,000 more paying subscribers into 2013, Just to break even this season.

There are only 3 providers that are Big enough to Bid on NFL ST Comcast, Dish and Directv.

If cable ever got the chance to bid on it in the USA, it would likley be Sports iNDemand handling it, which is run by Comcast, Time Warner and Cox.

However viewers would likely be pissed with their version of blackouts. They can't do it on the market level like DirecTV, they handle blackouts based on the headend level, and every team that has territory in a system served by the headend has to be blacked out. For suburban and rural cable systems on the outskirts of a market, their headend could be serving systems in multiple markets. i.e. here in the Poconos the headend used by Blue Ridge serves systems that are part of the NYC, Philly, Scranton, and Harrisburg markets. Every system served by that headend gets blacked out of Phillies, Mets, Yankees, Pirates, Nets, Knicks, 76ers, Devils, Rangers, Islanders, Flyers and Penguins, even though MSG and Root Sports Pittsburgh aren't carried on all of their systems.

If they were to take Sunday Ticket, their systems will always be blacked out of the Giants, Jets, Eagles, Steelers and sometimes the Ravens depending on what the Harrisburg stations choose, even if the system you reside in doesn't carry all of those Fox and CBS affiliates as neighboring stations.

I just read an artical from April 2012 from Bloomberg, that Pegged Directv ST subscriber at 2.5 Million total that pay. They also claimed that Directv would also have to add 750,000 more paying subscribers into 2013, Just to break even this season.

Thats total Customers!

Again...ignoring how many bar subs there are and how much more they pay.

I don't see the NFL expanding to multiple providers!
Like Hoosier205 said earlier the #1 concern is the network contracts and needing to protect their value.That has been the concern since the begining. The networks would balk at ST being available to 100 mil subscribers!

Dish couldn't or wouldn't out bid DTV, and cable just can't handle it!

I just read an artical from April 2012 from Bloomberg, that Pegged Directv ST subscriber at 2.5 Million total that pay. They also claimed that Directv would also have to add 750,000 more paying subscribers into 2013, Just to break even this season.

Again your ignoring the fact that 750,000 customers is whats needed, reguardless. It doesn't matter what they pay,the research is based on the year 2011-2012 season of suscribers.

And by breaking even means , 750,000 New addtional NFL ST subscribers need to be added for the 2013 season as a paying ST customer, so the ST cost isn't spread out among the other 17 million customers profit income to Directv.

This is why they are giving so much Free ST this year, in hopes that if they add 3 million, 750,000 will auto renew next year.

Honestly, I don't want it exclusive, for the simple fact that it drives the price of the 17.5 million other Directv customers to cover the losses of the other 2.5 mill ST subscrbers.

Again your ignoring the fact that 750,000 customers is whats needed, reguardless. It doesn't matter what they pay,the research is based on the year 2011-2012 season of suscribers.

And by breaking even means , 750,000 New addtional NFL ST subscribers need to be added for the 2013 season as a paying ST customer, so the ST cost isn't spread out among the other 17 million customers profit income to Directv.

This is why they are giving so much Free ST this year, in hopes that if they add 3 million, 750,000 will auto renew next year.

Honestly, I don't want it exclusive, for the simple fact that it drives the price of the 17.5 million other Directv customers to cover the losses of the other 2.5 mill ST subscrbers.

The term customer's is a very misleading term. I can understand your logic but it's not correct in this situation.

This however has nothing to do with the OP so I'd start a new thread if you want to. It will be talked about en mass next year when ST starts again.

Darn it! If I had known SS was going to be there, I would have told him to sneak into the RSN room and move the CSN Houston switch form "off" to "on."

"We are fast approaching the stage of the ultimate inversion: the stage where the government is free to do anything it pleases, while the citizens may act only by permission; which is the stage of the darkest periods of human history, the stage of rule by brute force." - Ayn Rand

Agree, Like I said there far less games on NFL Sunday Ticket now, then there ever has been. Thats going to mean something to Directv and its customers .

Directv isn't going to see the value is spending Billion on something thats quite frankly, NOT really exclusive IMO.

I've had Dish and Cable, both had Red Zone. Plus the now 13 games on NFL network. NBC has 18 with Thanksgiving Night.ESPN has 17 with their 2 monday night games week one. And Saturday Night game.And 2 Thanksgiving day games.

3 local games every sunday for 17 weeks

You don't need ST to see any of these.

101 games you don't need Sunday Ticket for.

Thats almost a Quarter of the season that everyone without ST can watch out of market games. Add red zone channels, and they can catch their teams mainly important plays.

Without it alot of us would not get to see hardly any of our favorite teams.